Project Case Study
Overview
Academic Leaf is a modern online bookstore designed to make discovering and purchasing books simple and enjoyable. The platform features a growing collection of fantasy, science fiction, and educational titles, presented through a clean and reader-friendly shopping experience. With easy category browsing, detailed book information, featured releases, and a dedicated author section, the website gives readers a convenient way to find their next great read while staying connected with new releases and literary content.
The previous site looked dated, loaded slowly, and required a developer for every change. The team needed a faster, on-brand experience they could maintain themselves — without sacrificing design quality or performance.
A custom build with a clean component system, an editor-friendly CMS, and a performance budget enforced from day one. Shipped on time, on brand, and built to scale with the business.
Process
Stakeholder interviews, competitive teardown, and a written brief that aligns scope, success metrics, and timeline before a single pixel is moved.
Information architecture, sitemap, content model, and a component inventory that maps every page to reusable, CMS-editable blocks.
Tokens for color, type, spacing, and motion. Editorial-grade layouts in Figma with full responsive specs and accessibility annotations.
Clean, semantic markup. Performance budget enforced from day one. Production CI, preview deploys, and a release checklist that ships with confidence.
Migration, redirects, analytics, training Loom library, and 30 days of post-launch monitoring with weekly performance reports.
Key Features
Image CDN, lazy hydration, critical CSS, and a strict performance budget enforced in CI.
Reusable blocks the team can rearrange and update without touching code or calling a developer.
WCAG AA across color, focus, and keyboard. Tested with screen readers, not just linters.
Semantic HTML, structured data, sitemap, OG metadata, and Core Web Vitals tuned in the green.
Production-grade architecture with typed APIs, error boundaries, and observability hooks.
Component-driven, fully typed, and documented so new features ship in days, not weeks.
Tech Stack
Results
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